LUMEN VULTUS (2016-ongoing)

I look at cities the way an architect does: searching for geometry beneath the noise, order within the chaos. But what I photograph are not the buildings themselves, but what happens between them. The light spilling onto a corner, the neon tinting a wall, the instant a figure crosses a beam and is suspended, for a second, against the darkness.

 

In this work, color is the protagonist. And so is its opposite: the black voids, those areas where the city falls silent and allows the image to breathe. Between these two extremes—saturation and shadow—people appear, vanishing without asking permission, inhabiting the scene for a moment before continuing on their way.

 

It's a long-term project that I started in 2016 and that continues to grow, city by city. Each one contributes its own voice to the essay: different languages, different climates, the same question — what does a city's face look like when the light decides to reveal it?

Project in development. The images in this series are drawn from cities in Europe and America.